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Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Key Facts Government & Agency Developments NASA, ISS and International Partners NASA kept busy on multiple fronts. On Sept. 5, NASA announced it will broadcast the launch and docking of Roscosmos’s Progress 93 cargo ship next week, as the Russian freighter carries ~3 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station nasa.gov. This Progress launch (scheduled for Sept. 11 from Baikonur) and its six-month stay at the ISS come as NASA also tests new ways to maintain the station’s orbit. Notably, a SpaceX Dragon CRS-33 cargo vehicle performed the first-ever reboost of the ISS using its own engines on
6 September 2025
You Won’t Believe How Easily You Can Spot the ISS – Ultimate International Space Station Viewing Guide

You Won’t Believe How Easily You Can Spot the ISS – Ultimate International Space Station Viewing Guide

The ISS is roughly football-field-sized, sits about 250 miles above Earth, travels at about 17,500 mph, and completes an orbit every ~92 minutes, circling Earth about 16 times per day. Its orbit is inclined about 51.6° to the equator, so its ground track passes over more than 90% of Earth’s population and it never goes farther north than 51.6° N or south than 51.6° S. It shines by reflected sunlight, is often the third-brightest object after the Sun and Moon, appears as a steady white dot with no blinking, and can flare slightly when sunlight glints off its solar panels.
16 August 2025
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